Faith 2.0: Religion on the Internet

Yesterday I listened to the podcasts from Faith 2.0 Religion on the Internet, a conference last week in England about religion on the internet. Jointly sponsored by Tony Blair Faith Foundation and Durham University. The best talk in my opinion is the keynote speech [download here] by Catherine Wybourne, the "invisible nun" from Holy Trinity…

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Mission in Digital Frontiers: Learning Day in Adelaide

Next week I am doing a learning day at Uniting College, Adelaide, South Australia. Thanks to Dr Steve Taylor, Director of Missiology, for inviting me over. You might remember Steve for his EmergentKiwi blog or his excellent book The Out of Bounds Church?: Learning to Create a Community of Faith in a Culture of Change.…

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Lunch with the Backyard Missionary

Today I am up in Butler, north of Perth, about to have lunch with Backyard Missionary blogger Andrew Hamilton and his wife Danelle. His blog is legendary – an emerging church kind of blog with varied thoughts on life ranging from Rob Bell to surfing. Why backyard? Because Andrew is a reticulation engineer and spends…

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Storytelling the good news through blogging (Perth Event)

This Saturday morning I am teaching on storytelling the gospel for a group organized by Scripture Union in Perth, West Australia. Its part of a social media training tour that was suggested to me at Lausanne World Congress last year in Cape Town. Peter Barney, also at Lausanne, asked that I do something in Perth.…

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Upstream Collective in Prague: Try the cheese!

The Upstream Collective arrives in Perth for a missions/history experience that is designed to have an impact far beyond the lucky people who are on location. Welcome to Prague, everyone. My question for you to consider: As the Middle East currently goes through a political transition that mirrors Eastern/Central Europe 20 years ago, what can…

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Top 200 Church Blogs. Do reformed nerds really rule?

Church blog rankings have one purpose and one purpose only: To allow the reformed bloggers to ridicule the emerging church bloggers. If there was another purpose, it would be for all of us church bloggers to stroke our tender blog-egos. Kent Shafer just released his Top 200 church blogs and it seems the Reformed bloggers…

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The church growth strategy we never thought of

Kate Middleton gets confirmed by the Bishop of London, ahead of the royal wedding. That's what I call a successful church growth strategy – anyone who wants to marry a handsome prince has to get confirmed into the church. Cant lose! Except for the fact that handsome princes are in short supply.

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Christian Web Conference

The Christian Web Conference starts today. I enjoyed speaking at CWC a few years ago when it was called Godblogcon and I almost made it in 2009. Wish I was there now. Actually, my workshop in Perth, West Australia this weekend will be based in part on my Life Streaming Keynote that I presented at…

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Introducing Fringe Expressions

You've heard of Fresh Expressions? Good. I want to introduce the idea of Fringe Expressions which is our next major project. But before I waffle on about what I mean by that strange phrase, I need to pause . . . and say . . .  THANKS to our sponsors for the incredible last season…

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Letters to the House Church Movement

Rad Zdero has released a new book today: Letters to the House Church Movement. Its a collection of ACTUAL, REAL, GENUINE letters. Almost sounds . . . biblical. My endorsement on the book says . . . "I am thrilled that Rad Zdero has released this series of insightful letters into book form… a timely,…

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Blogging Still Matters in 2011

Its a classic piece of 2009 blog-candy for executives, businessmen, and you have probably seen it already, but I want to post it today. I think blogging matters in 2011, more than ever, especially as bloggers shift their game towards online publishing on mobile devices and pull their various streams together to highlight their voices…

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Curating Worship

A passage I read this morning from One Year Bible Blog was from Joshua: "And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan." We might say that Joshua 'curated' the stones, or set them up in a way that they would tell their story to those who saw…

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Audio: Michael Frost at Lausanne Fringe

I am editing parts of the Lausanne Fringe session from Cape Town last September. Its a great audio but the original is really long and a very large file, thanks to my long-winded introduction. For those of you who are ADD/ADHD/CAFFEINE-INDUCED or just want to get to the good stuff, here's a bite-sized audio of…

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My mum thinks I am special

My mother was right – I AM special! And life really IS like a box of chocolates . .  you just dont know what your'e gonna get.   My mum got me.God bless her! Tomorrow we are having a 70th birthday celebration for my Mum, who lives in Perth, West Australia. All the rellies are…

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My old Sunday School

My old Sunday School – the place where I first heard the story of Jesus and where my spiritual pilgrimage started. I was about 5 years old. Mrs Fitzgerald who lived on Martin Cresent took me every Sunday to the Presbyterian church in Northcote, in the northern suburbs of Auckland. On the wall was a…

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